- Barbara O'Neal at Writer Unboxed has tips for unplugging. "This is not me being superior," she says (which is what rubs me the wrong way about most posts like this). "This is me saying I hate doing it, but it works." (via @4kidlit)

"...Maybe what we need is to go so far down respect’s throat we come out the other side, surfing an effluent tide of flaming typewriters, LSD habits, and public badassery. We need literary rock star heroes to swoop in and save publishing. And here's how we get 'em."

- Totally unrelated except that the pictures made me cry and I couldn't believe that with all the time I spend online, this was the first I'd seen of it: Famine in east Africa. Donation links at the bottom of the page.

Kate is the author of After the Fall, coming January 24, 2017 from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. A former teacher and grant writer, she now owns a treehouse-building business in the Ozarks and hosts the Badass Ladies You Should Know interview series.